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August 28, 2013, 09:43 PM | #1 |
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Quick ? about the Blackhawk SERPA/CQC...
I own a left hand SERPA(matte CQC format) for a S&W Military and Police model.
I'm thinking of buying a new Smith and Wesson SD9 9x19mm pistol soon. My question is if the SD9 will fit(with security/function) in the SERPA holster for the M&P series. The holster seems adjustable to a point with the polymer frame. Id prefer to keep using it for concealed carry and/or armed security posts. I'm in a $$$ bind too so please don't post remarks about the SIGs or HKs or Glocks. Also Im mandated by state laws to only use a 9mm. No .44magnums or .480 Rugers, . PM me if you own or carry a SD9/SD40 if you want. Thx; Clyde |
August 31, 2013, 11:16 AM | #2 |
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You may do well to email the company and see if they are interchangeable or find out if other holster makers are listing off a single holster that fits both of those guns. I know Blackhawk don't always list off what will fit in the holster on their website or the packaging. I carry a Glock 20 in cold weather months, Glock 29 in warm weather. I bought the holster that was marked for the 20/21 and wouldn't you know it the 29 fits in there exactly the same. Only difference is length of grip and slide/barrel length. These holsters seem to work partially on the shape of the gun but mostly where the trigger guard is located and shape.
The adjustment that this holster offers is kind of minimal. The best way I can describe it lets you adjust how snug the gun is in the holster. Its already a mostly snug fit with a touch of wobble and play while in the holster, but you can tighten it up so there is no wobble. You should probably be aware there has been a bit of controversy about this holster and accidental discharges. I'm not knocking the holster as I use one myself, just making you aware that an issue does exist. If you google "blackhawk serpa banned" you'll see what I am talking about. |
September 2, 2013, 04:41 PM | #3 |
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Thanks for the post.
I checked into a new SD9 pistol and the QC isn't that hot compared to the M&P models. I also checked on the forums of S&W owners and a few members said the Blackhawk SERPAs fit a few M&Ps, SD9/40s, SIGMAs, & other models. As for the safety/design of the SERPAs, I had no problems with my polymer holster and M&P full size. The SERPA isn't perfect but its good for general concealed carry and range use. I've seen a few local detectives & investigators using SERPAs with 1911a1 pistols & the SIG P226 9x19mm. I might save up and buy a new M&P compact 9mm or get a new PPX sidearm later. CF |
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
This paper describes the TELIAMADE system, a new indoor positioning system based on time-of-flight (TOF) of ultrasonic signal to estimate the distance between a receiver node and a transmitter node. TELIAMADE system consists of a set of wireless nodes equipped with a radio module for communication and a module for the transmission and reception of ultrasound. The access to the ultrasonic channel is managed by applying a synchronization algorithm based on a time-division multiplexing (TDMA) scheme. The ultrasonic signal is transmitted using a carrier frequency of 40 kHz and the TOF measurement is estimated by applying a quadrature detector to the signal obtained at the A/D converter output. Low sampling frequencies of 17.78 kHz or even 12.31 kHz are possible using quadrature sampling in order to optimize memory requirements and to reduce the computational cost in signal processing. The distance is calculated from the TOF taking into account the speed of sound. An excellent accuracy in the estimation of the TOF is achieved using parabolic interpolation to detect of maximum of the signal envelope at the matched filter output. The signal phase information is also used for enhancing the TOF measurement accuracy. Experimental results show a root mean square error (rmse) less than 2 mm and a standard deviation less than 0.3 mm for pseudorange measurements in the range of distances between 2 and 6 m. The system location accuracy is also evaluated by applying multilateration. A sub-centimeter location accuracy is achieved with an average rmse of 9.6 mm.
In recent years the use of location information and its potentiality in the development of ambient intelligence applications has led to the design of many local positioning systems (LPS) based on different technologies. Systems based on radio frequency signals (RF) require fewer infrastructures than other technologies but have less accuracy. This accuracy is of tens of centimeters for UWB (Ultra Wide-Band) systems based on measurements of TOA (Time-of-Arrival) [
Unlike these technologies, the ultrasound signal has several advantages such as a slow propagation speed, a negligible penetration in walls and a low cost of the transducers. The characteristics of the ultrasound signal are interesting for use in indoor positioning systems (IPS). The accuracy achieved by ultrasound is typically of a few centimeters. The time-of-flight (TOF) of the signal in its propagation from a transmitter device to a receiver device is used to calculate the distance between them taking into account the propagation speed of sound. This requires a correct temporal synchronization of the network nodes.
The synchronization can be easily achieved through electrical pulses in systems with a wired connection between nodes. ATLINTIDA [
The synchronization problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is usually solved using radio frequency signals (RF). In the literature several examples of positioning systems based on ultrasound and RF can be found. The negligible propagation delay of the RF signal allows one to use this signal for beginning synchronously the transmission and reception processes of ultrasonic signal. Thus, achieving accurate distance estimations (inferred from the TOF of ultrasonic signal) is possible.
For example, Active Bat [
Newer systems such as 3D-LOCUS [
In this paper we present a new IPS called TELIAMADE, originally aimed for use in ambient intelligence applications for the care of dependent people with reduced mobility. However, this system could be used also in industrial environments to accurately control the movement of machinery. With this system, we aim to provide a new low-power wireless architecture, greater accuracy in TOF measurement and high configuration-flexibility.
TELIAMADE has a master-slave topology with a coordinator node and a set of end nodes. The communication between nodes is based on the exchange of radio messages using the ZigBee protocol. The network administrator can configure the nodes operation mode by sending ZigBee messages through the coordinator node, which acts as a gateway between the user application and the end nodes. The availability of a module for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic signal in each end node enables them to operate as ultrasonic transmitters or receivers. Some transmission and reception parameters such as the size and signal duration, the sampling frequency or the measurement rate can be configured. This way, the system operation can be adjusted to scenarios with different requirements.
The TELIAMADE system makes use of a shared radio link for data transmission and network synchronization purposes. The negligible propagation delay of the radio messages enables to use the ZigBee interface to provide synchronization information to the network nodes. TOF measurements are performed periodically following a TDMA scheme, which enables an access to the ultrasonic channel without the need of a supervisor node to monitor the process. However this measure scheme entails some synchronization problems that must be avoided in order to correctly measure the time-of-flight of ultrasound signal.
The TOF measurement is estimated using a quadrature detector in which quadrature band-pass sampling is used in order to optimize memory requirements and reduce the computation cost in signal processing. In order to get an accurate TOF estimation, we use parabolic interpolation to precisely detect the envelope maximum at the quadrature detector output. The signal phase information is also used to improve the TOF estimation, thereby increasing the system accuracy by using multilateration from the distances derived from the TOF measurements.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 the TELIAMADE system architecture is described. In this section the hardware design of the nodes is shown as well as the way in which the ultrasound signal is generated and detected. Section 3 describes the algorithm to measure the TOF of ultrasonic signals. In Section 4 we describe the distance estimation from the TOF measurement and the positioning algorithm. In Section 5 results of the system accuracy of the distance measure are shown. Results on location accuracy of the system are provided making use of multilateration. Finally, in Section 6 we summarize the main conclusions of this work.
TELIAMADE has a star network topology in which a master node (coordinator) manages a set of end nodes using a digital radio link based on the ZigBee protocol [
The nodes are also equipped with a pair of ceramic ultrasonic transducers (400ST/R120) [
The generation of ultrasonic signal is performed using the EUSART (Enhanced Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter module) of the microcontroller. A sequence of alternating 0 and 1 bits is generated at a baud rate equal to twice the resonance frequency of the transducer (
The TOF computation is performed using a quadrature digital detector. The received signal from the ultrasonic transducer is amplified and filtered using an active second order analog filter with a 40 kHz center frequency and a Q = 8 quality factor. Its implementation requires the use of a dual operational amplifier (LMC6482IN) [
The signal sampling is done using the A/D converter of the microcontroller with 10-bit resolution for a suitable dynamic range. The signal samples are stored in the microcontroller RAM memory using 2 bytes per sample.
The operation of the TELIAMADE system in its typical configuration is shown in
The power consumption of the nodes is mainly due to the radio chip and the microcontroller. The use of the ZigBee protocol enables the radio chip to be configured in a low-power mode. In a network with a large number of distributed transmitter nodes over an area of location, only those nodes closest to the mobile node are useful to estimate its position. In this way, those nodes out of the reception range of the mobile node can be set in a low-consumption mode. In normal mode (A-mode), the radio chip is on and the peripherals of the microcontroller are enabled for processing any service interruption. The radio chip and peripherals are disabled when the node is put in low consumption (B-mode). Included information in synchronization and control packets can modify the operating mode of the radio chip. In this case, the node is periodically awakened to receive the synchronization message and to process this information, using the watchdog timer of the microcontroller. The node is set again to low-consumption mode if the synchronization information indicates that must be set to B-mode. In A-mode, the average consumption of an end node is 29.9 mA and 26.9 mA when operating as ultrasonic transmitter or receiver respectively. This consumption is reduced to 1.7 mA when the node operates in B-mode. This consumption corresponds to a rate of 5 measurements per second. Experimentally it has been shown that a lower measurement rate reduces the consumption although slightly.
The TELIAMADE nodes are powered by AA batteries with a typical capacity of 2,000 mAh, so that the battery life in A-mode would be approximately 67 hours, whereas in B-mode would be 1,176 hours. In a real-life scenario both modes are possible, so that the battery life will depend on the application implemented by the system.
However this consumption can be further reduced. For this we propose a periodic scheduled measurement scheme based on a time division multiple access. Using this approach, the network nodes can be programmed to start transmission or reception of ultrasonic pulses at given time instants. The TDMA scheme enables an orderly access to the ultrasound channel of the transmitter nodes, avoiding collisions in the signal transmission. This synchronization proposal has several drawbacks that need to be addressed to obtain a high accuracy on the TOF estimation. In [
In the next section we describe the procedure used to obtain the TOF measurements of the ultrasonic signal. From this measure, it is possible to estimate the distance between nodes by considering the propagation speed of sound.
The TOF measurement is obtained from the recorded signal samples in receiver node. The memory capacity (
Low-pass sampling of the ultrasonic signal requires a sampling frequency of
A band-pass sampling scheme is implemented to deal with this problem. The general theory of band-pass sampling determines that a band-pass signal with central frequency of
With this approach it is possible to handle signals of greater duration to increase the distance range of the system (a smaller sampling rate enables a greater time-of-flight of the signal) or to reduce the processing resources at the receiver to operate with a smaller number of signal samples. Below we will describe the way in which the TOF measurement is estimated by applying a quadrature digital detector using a band-pass sampling scheme.
The general expression of a bandpass signal
This invites us to implement a coherent detector based on
These filters provide the values of the in-phase and quadrature components in the instants where they are unknown. Experimentally we have found that 7 coefficients (
For transmission of an ultrasound pulse (signal burst of one bit), the in-phase and quadrature components at the output of the matched filter are obtained as
The estimation error in determining the envelope maximum is reduced by applying parabolic interpolation considering the adjacent samples around the selected peak [
The interpolation correction leads to errors less than half sample period and reduces the standard deviation of the measurements. Such accuracy enables the use of phase signal information to improve the TOF measurement. Below it is detailed how the phase information can be used to improve the TOF estimation.
The signal phase information has a greater resolution and its value is not limited by the used sampling frequency [
This approach is based on the assumption that the signal delay is estimated correctly as a whole number of wavelengths. According to the characteristics of our digital detector, the phase is easily calculated from the in-phase and quadrature components at the output of the matched filter
The distance between two nodes is estimated from the TOF measurement using the propagation speed of sound (
To achieve a good accuracy in the distance calculation, it is necessary to properly estimate the speed of sound. The speed of sound in air depends on factors such as temperature, relative humidity, pressure, or air turbulence. In this work we make use of the approach proposed by [
The approach described in this section assumes a proper synchronization of the network nodes, as discussed in Section 1. The TOF measurement requires a precise synchronization between the receiving and transmitting processes of the ultrasound signal. Each network node has a local clock that controls its operation. Clock drifts introduce a delay between the receiver and transmitter nodes and consequently an inaccurate estimation of the TOF value. In a wireless sensor network, such synchronization of the clocks is particularly complex. The details of this network synchronization mechanism can be found in [
Assuming a typical location scenario with a mobile node and a set of fixed transmitter nodes, the mobile position can be calculated by applying multilateration using the estimated distances from the receiver node to each transmitter node, which are denoted as
Instead of applying an iterative algorithm to determine the mobile position (
The closed solution for
This section discusses the TELIAMADE system accuracy In Section 5.1, we show some results of the system accuracy in the distance measurement. Although these results are adequate to show the good performance of the system, it is also true that they do not actually reflect the location accuracy in a real environment. Section 5.2 describes the scenario where some position measurements are taken to evaluate the location accuracy of our system in a real environment and the corresponding results.
In order to evaluate the accuracy of the system in the distance measurement, we used a pair of nodes (transmitter and receiver) separated by certain known distance.
Factors such as the signal filtering in reception or the calculation of the signal envelope at the output of the matched filter are the cause of a group delay that affects measurements (see
The thick line shows the regression line obtained after calibration.
However, other factors can cause additional TOF estimation errors in a real environment; one of the most important is the multipath effect. The reflection of the ultrasonic signal in surrounding obstacles can create alternative propagation paths between emitter and receiver. In some situations, the multipath effect can cause the overlapping of two or more replicas of the ultrasonic signals at the receiver, modifying therefore the shape of the received signal. This shape modification will introduce an unknown bias in the TOF estimation obtained by the receiver matched filter. Dealing with such effects was not addressed in this work and we have used an experimental setup specifically designed to avoid them. When measuring the TOF between two network nodes, they were placed one in front of the other at a height of 1.6 m above the floor and 1.6 m farther away from walls and any other obstacle. For distances between emitter and receiver of less than 6 m, this setup ensures that any possible echo of the ultrasonic signal will reach the receiver at least 2.35 ms later than the main signal (the one propagated through the direct path). Considering that 1 ms ultrasonic signal was used in the experiments, this setup will avoid signal overlapping at the receiver due to multipath effects.
TOF measurement obtained from the sampling instant in which the envelope reaches its maximum amplitude. Using parabolic interpolation for detecting the maximum of the signal envelope. Using parabolic interpolation and phase correction for detecting the maximum of the signal envelope at the matched filter output.
Different sampling frequencies were also used to prove the benefits of implementing of quadrature sampling, in particular for frequencies of 32.00 kHz, 17.78 kHz and 12.31 kHz (using
A portion of this absolute total error (|
For a distance of 6 m and a sampling frequency of 12.31 kHz, the results in
The clock time resolution of the TELIAMADE nodes is
A second experiment was performed allowing the mobility of the receiver node while the transmitter node was fixed, in order to demonstrate the goodness of our system for estimating the distance in a dynamic way. In
The positioning accuracy of the TELIAMADE system was analyzed in a clear room of dimensions (7 × 5) m2 and a height of 2.7 m. Four transmitter nodes were placed in the ceiling just in the center of the room with their ultrasound transducers pointing down. This deployment of the nodes avoids possible reflection of the signal on the nearby walls (multipath effect). The origin of the coordinate system was on the floor and coincides roughly with the center of the square formed by the four transmitter nodes when projecting their positions on the floor. The receiver node was located on an optical bench with its ultrasound transducers pointing up towards the ceiling. The optical bench was resting on two tripods (see
Positioning measurements in the direction of the x-axis and the y-axis were taken. To do so, the optical bench was placed parallel to the x-axis and then parallel to the y-axis. The receiver node was moved in 10 cm intervals on the bench. A total of 8 positions on the x-axis and 9 positions on the y-axis were evaluated (see
For this new experimentation, the transmitter nodes were configured to transmit an ultrasonic pulse of 1 ms. Such transmission was done in an orderly manner in order to avoid signal collisions in transmission using a TDMA approach. The network nodes were programmed to start the transmission or reception of ultrasonic pulses at given time instants. In this case, the channel is reserved during 200 ms to each transmitter node. Thus a cycle of four measurements is completed every 800 ms. The position of the receiver node was estimated by using multilateration from the distance measurements between it and the transmitter nodes. A sampling frequency of 17.78 kHz (M = 5) was fixed in the receiver by using the B approach for estimating the TOF measurement. The distance measurement was calculated considering the average value of the room temperature recorded in diverse positions, which was used for estimating of the speed of sound. Its value was 28 °C.
Note that the histogram shape roughly corresponds to a mixture of two Gaussian distributions. Each distribution is the result from considering the positioning measurements taken at a certain height. The distribution of the measurements taken from height 2 has an average error greater than the distribution of measurements taken from height 1. This is because of the greater proximity between the receiver and the transmitters, resulting in a greater angle of emission or reception of the ultrasonic transducers. Since they are not omnidirectional transducers, the TOF measurement of the signal can be affected. Considering the contribution of both distributions, the histogram shape can be interpreted as a Gaussian distribution with a mean of 9.6 mm and a standard deviation of 3.8 mm.
Although the positioning results show a sub-centimeter location accuracy of the system, part of the error is due to an inaccurate estimate of the coordinates of the transmitter nodes. These results can be improved by using a calibration mechanism to precisely determine the position of the transmitter nodes. The error could also be reduced by including information about the angle of incidence of the transducers.
In this work we present the characteristics of the TELIAMADE system, a versatile LPS based on a wireless ultrasonic sensor network. Our approach is oriented to provide a new architecture for low power consumption, sub-centimeter location accuracy, and greater network configuration flexibility by using low memory requirements and a reduced computational cost.
Network nodes have an RF module by which they can communicate using the ZigBee protocol. A master node connected to a PC sends control messages to configure the operation of the network nodes. The ZigBee protocol enables managing the network efficiently by implementing several strategies to reduce the power consumption of the system and extend the battery life of the nodes. The nodes have also a hardware module for the transmission and reception of ultrasound signals, so that they can operate as ultrasonic transmitters or receivers.
The distance between nodes in TELIAMADE is calculated from the TOF measurement of ultrasound signal using the speed of sound, whose value is estimated considering the ambient temperature. The TOF of signal is estimated by using a quadrature detector. In order to optimize the memory requirements and to reduce the computational cost of signal processing, a band-pass quadrature sampling scheme is used. This enables using sampling frequencies as low as 17.78 kHz or even 12.31 kHz. The use of parabolic interpolation for detecting the envelope maximum value combined with the phase correction allows estimating the TOF with an accuracy of better than one-half the set sampling period (
The mobile node position is calculated by applying multilateration from the estimated distance to the fixed nodes, which means that the location error will be affected by the distance errors. However, we think that other factors such as inaccuracies in the location of the fixed nodes or the angle of incidence of the ultrasonic transducers could possibly contribute to positioning error. Some experimental results show a location accuracy with RMSE values less than 1 cm. Therefore, we can say that the TELIAMADE system has a sub-centimeter location accuracy in an environment free of multipath effect on the ultrasound signal.
The system location area is limited by the angle of incidence and range of the ultrasonic transducers. In the current implementation, such area covers approximately 3 m3. In a future work, we would like to use omnidirectional transducers of greater range. This is feasible for the receiver as there exist MEMS-based sensors that are intrinsically omnidirectional [
This work was partly supported by the Regional Government of Andalusia under Research Project P08-TIC-03886. Authors are with the Department of Signal Theory, Networking and Communications (TSTC-UGR) and with the Information and Communications Technology Research Centre (CITIC-UGR) of the University of Granada.
Illustration of the connection between nodes in the TELIAMADE system based on a master-slave topology. A coordinator node connected to a PC is operating as master and allows synchronization, configuration and control of the network end nodes. The end nodes operate as slaves. These can send information about their configuration and also data about TOF measurements of the ultrasound signal when they are operating as ultrasonic receivers, which are processed on a PC. The communication between nodes is based on the exchange of radio packets using the ZigBee Protocol.
Hardware design of the TELIAMADE nodes. In transmission, the ultrasound signal is amplified before being driven to the transducer, in order to increase the signal power and improve the range of the system. In reception, the signal is amplified and band-pass filtered before being sampled and digitized using the A/D converter of the microcontroller.
Picture of a TELIAMADE node. The regions identified by dashed line show the hardware components of the radio module and the signal conditioning modules for transmission and reception of ultrasonic signal.
The typical configuration of the TELIAMADE system. A coordinator node is connected to a PC through which all other nodes of the network are managed. A set of fixed nodes work as ultrasonic transmitters (Tx) and are placed on known positions (typically at the ceiling). The mobile node operates as ultrasonic receiver. Its position is determined by applying multilateration using the estimated distances to the transmitter nodes.
The normalized frequency response of the filters using a value of M = 5 (
Reception of an ultrasonic pulse emitted by a transmitter node located at a distance of 3 m from the receiver node. The thin continuous line represents the received sampled signal using a sampling frequency of
Parabolic interpolation using a buffer size of 3 samples to obtain the maximum of the signal envelope.
Illustration of the test-bed used in the distance measurements. A transmitter node and a receiver node are placed one in front of the other using a pair of tripods at a height of 1.6 m above the ground. Different distances in the range of 2–6 m are considered. The distance between nodes is set by using a commercial laser rangefinder of precision ±1.5 mm. The transmitter node sends periodically an ultrasound pulse of 1 ms by allowing 8 TOF measurements every 3.2 seconds. The receiver node is configured to use the sampling frequencies of 32 kHz, 17.78 kHz and 12.31 kHz. A total of 500 TOF measurements were taken for each distance and each sampling frequency.
Calibration procedure for a pair of nodes. A linear regression of the distance measurements is used in order to compensate the group delay in the TOF measurements. The distances measured with the laser rangefinder are plotted on the Y-axis, while the averaged distances obtained from the TOF measurements are plotted on the X-axis. The thin line shows the linear regression of the plotted dots before the group delay compensation. Here a distance error of 22.41 cm is observed. The thick line shows the regression line obtained after calibration of the nodes.
(Above) Dynamic estimation of the distance between a fixed transmitter node and a mobile receiver node. (Below) Dynamic estimation of the speed of the mobile node in its displacement from the transmitter node.
Test bench used to position the receiver node in different positions.
(Left) Illustration of the node position in the 3D-space. The red dots show the position of the receiver node on the optical bench. Positioning measurements are taken at two different heights (10.8 cm and 62.8 cm). (Right) Illustration of the node position in the 2D-space. The blue dots are the position of the transmitter nodes projected onto the xy-plane. The red dots are the positions of the receiver node in its displacement on the optical bench.
Absolute error histogram using all positioning measurements from both heights. The absolute error is calculated as the Euclidean distance between the estimated location and the true location.
Interpolated in-phase and quadrature components using an odd value for
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The average location error of the measurements taken at each position. The ex, ey and ez values are respectively the errors in the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis obtained by subtracting the estimated coordinates of the node with the true coordinates for each position. The global location error is calculated from these errors as the root mean square error (RMSE) for the measurements taken at each position. The last row in the table shows the average absolute error from all measurements taken at the different positions for each height.
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2 | 0.5 | −4.1 | −0.8 | 4.9 | 14.7 | −1.3 | 1.1 | 14.9 |
3 | 9.4 | −5.2 | 0.0 | 10.9 | −7.7 | −2.5 | −4.0 | 9.2 |
4 | 5.0 | −4.2 | 0.6 | 7.0 | −11.1 | 2.8 | −3.7 | 12.2 |
5 | −1.2 | 0.8 | −0.5 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 10.5 | 1.3 | 10.8 |
6 | 3.4 | −11.4 | −2.1 | 12.2 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 4.4 |
7 | 3.1 | 5.3 | −0.4 | 6.4 | 6.1 | −6.2 | 2.9 | 9.4 |
8 | −7.0 | 9.7 | −3.6 | 12.7 | −1.6 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 4.1 |
9 | −8.3 | −3.4 | 1.0 | 9.4 | −4.0 | −7.3 | −0.4 | 8.6 |
10 | 0.2 | −1.7 | −0.3 | 2.6 | −6.1 | −3.7 | −3.6 | 8.3 |
11 | −9.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 10.1 | 9.3 | −1.1 | −1.0 | 9.7 |
12 | 4.4 | 6.1 | 3.1 | 8.5 | 7.1 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 7.8 |
13 | 8.8 | −2.1 | 4.7 | 10.5 | 7.3 | 5.2 | −0.3 | 9.1 |
14 | 8.5 | −6.8 | 5.3 | 12.3 | 5.6 | 9.9 | −1.4 | 11.6 |
15 | −2.1 | −3.9 | 2.2 | 5.4 | 1.1 | 0.2 | −4.0 | 4.6 |
16 | −15.9 | −6.1 | −0.8 | 17.2 | −7.6 | 10.8 | −0.2 | 13.3 |
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Hi, my name is Mario Carbajal (a.k.a. Basro), and I'm an Argentine indie game creator with a passion for multiplayer games.
I've been working on HaxBall since August 2010. The project started quite aimless as merely an experiment with the new P2P capabilites of the Flash Player. It slowly turned into what the game is today.
Pilaf, my brother, has been helping me with the more "web" related aspects of haxball. He has been maintaining just about everything that is not the game itself, including the site and facebook page.
Qualo, a good friend of mine, is the author of the sounds and the logo.
Jonsul, a good friend from the uk, helped me by making the first version of this site.
You can contact me by mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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We lost a great man over the weekend - astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away at the age of 82. If you would like more information about this man and his achievements, check out some of our children's books and materials on Mr. Armstrong, or a Video or two, or some adult reading as well. Spend some time learning about what he did at your public library!
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In Dreamweaver CS5 Essential Training, Adobe Certified Instructor James Williamson explores the tools and techniques of Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe's web design and development software. This course covers both the ins and outs of Dreamweaver, as well as recommended best practices for crafting new web sites and files, the fundamentals of HTML and CSS, and how to ensure clean and accessible code. The course also includes how to use tools in Dreamweaver to create and style web pages, manage multiple sites, and add user interactivity with widgets and scripting. Exercise files are included with the course.
There is more to working with remote servers than just uploading and downloading files from your site. Dreamweaver has a robust toolset to help you manage the relationship between the remote site and local development environment. And even for working with collaborative team members. In this movie, we'll dig a little deeper into Dreamweaver's site management capabilities. Now I've defined the 16_06 folder as my local site and I'm just going to go over to my Files panel and expand that so that we're looking at both the Local and the Remote views.
Again, be aware that if you're on a Mac, your view is going to look a little different than me, but the panel works exactly the same way. Now one of the first things I want to talk about in site management is synchronization. So I'm going to go ahead and connect to the Remote Server and it's going to take a moment but then my Remote panel will go ahead and populate with my live online site. And I want to go right over here to this little icon that looks like a little refresh or recycle icon, but it's really synchronize. What site synchronization does is it tries to help monitor your local files and your remote files so that you're always dealing with the most current version of it.
That's especially helpful if you're in a team environment, because maybe you go on the road and you work on a page and you upload it and one of your team members back in the office doesn't know that you've just done that. If they open up a page and work on it and upload it, well, they can override the changes that you've made. So, one of the things that it can help you do is make sure that you're dealing with the most current version of your page. So notice that we have a few options here. We can either put the newer files on our local server to the remote server. We can get newer files from the remote server. So again, if you have just got back in the office and you've been gone for a week or two, you can hook up and find out which files have been added to the remote server or are newer on the remote server since you left and go ahead and pull them down.
Or you can get and put newer files. That'll compare on both sides and it'll send any newer files locally to the remote server and grab any of the newer files on the remote server and bring them to your local server. Okay, well, I'm really only interested in putting newer files to the remote, so anything maybe that I've changed here that are newer than what's on my remote site. Now whenever you do that, you're going to have some options that you want to be very careful about. One of those is this little checkbox right here, Delete remote files not on local drive. Wow, that could be extremely damaging.
You'll notice for example that part of my Explore California web site is a blog. Well, the blog isn't part of my local development environment. So, if I had that selected, I would nuke my entire blog. So you need to be very, very careful about those particular settings. Now I'm going to hit Preview and that's the beautiful thing about this. Even if you've forgotten something or you've checked that without really meaning to, right now Dreamweaver is not really doing anything other than comparing things for me. Now as soon as it's done with the comparison of my remote and my local site, I'm going to get a listing of all the files that it wants to either upload or download.
In this case, I see something odd about this list. It's going to upload a Photoshop file. I don't need that on my remote server. That's for my local environment. As a matter of fact, just below that is a Flash file. And I don't want either of those files to upload. They're usually large. I mean, I've even got a QuickTime movie. Okay, something's going on here. So, I'm going to hit Cancel and what's happening is that I have a folder here called _assets and if I open that up, I can see that I have my Photoshop files, my Flash files, my Illustrator files, those are all sort of development files that I've been working on.
I don't want to upload those to my remote server. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use another site management tool that Dreamweaver has called cloaking. I'm going to right click that folder and I'm going to tell Dreamweaver for Cloaking to Cloak that folder. You'll notice it'll have a little slash through it. That way the items in that folder are ignored when I do any type of synchronization or mass upload of my local site to my remote server. I can protect Word documents, PDF files that I don't want to put on the public server, things like that. So once again, I'm going to select my root directory to make sure my entire site is going to be synchronized.
And I'm going to click Synchronize with "remote". Again, I'm going to do the Entire 'Explore California' Site, put newer files to remote, and I'm going to preview that. So it'll scan it again. It scans it each and every single time. All right, now I see that the Photoshop files and the QuickTime movies aren't part of my synchronization any more and that's fantastic. Well, I have a lot of new images. Maybe I was creating some assets that weren't around when I did my initial site upload. And as I scroll down, I see a few other icons here. Notice that I've got a little strikethrough mark and it says Resolve.
Well, Dreamweaver wants to know what I want to do. Notice it says the local and remote version of the file changed since the last synchronization. So if you're using synchronization as your primary means to upload and download files, Dreamweaver is going to say, hey, wait a second. Both of these files have changed. Do you want to upload or do you want to download them? Well, one of the things that I do is I can go ahead and highlight all of those issues and say you know what, don't worry about it. Let's just go ahead and mark those selected files as already synchronized. That way, I can come back to them and worry about them a little bit later on.
Also I really don't want anything except for those images. Maybe that's what I was really interested in uploading in the first place. So, I can select anything that isn't in the _images directory and I can tell Dreamweaver to go ahead and ignore those files. Now be very careful here. There's a little strikethrough, which basically says hey, at this moment, don't synchronize these. Click that and it sort of removes them from the list and just tells them to ignore it. But right beside that there is a trashcan. Notice when you hover over, it says Mark selected files for deletion. That's not the best user interface design I've ever seen, putting those two so close together. Be really careful about that.
Because if you have that selected, you're going to mark those files for deletion and Dreamweaver's going to literally throw them in the trash for you. So be really, really cautious about how you utilize that setting. Okay. So, now I'm going to put all my images up. I'm going to go ahead and click OK and Dreamweaver's going to go ahead and do that for me. Now, you can also save this log,so that later on you can see when and how your files were synchronized. If you're doing uploading activities daily or even weekly, saving that information is really helpful. Now, if you're working in a team environment or even if you just want to check your progress and the success of some of your transfers, one of the options that you have right up here in your Site panel toolbar is the FTP Log.
I'm going to go ahead and click on that and that's going to open up another panel that was in my results grouping and this is the FTP Log. It's going to go ahead and log every connection that you've made to your server. Which files were uploaded. When a successful connection was made. When the transfer or connection failed. So there's a lot of information at your fingertips. If you're managing your site and a lot of people are uploading it, it's a really good way for you tell when files are being uploaded and which files are being uploaded. There is one last site management tool I want to cover. I'm going to expand my Files panel again and I want to talk for just a moment about design notes.
When you work in a collaborative environment with other designers who are uploading and downloading files to your site, you're probably going to have one or two people who are in charge of managing traffic or making sure that the right people are working on the right thing. E-mail is a great way of doing that, but Dreamweaver also gives us a tool known as design notes. Take for example this contact page. Maybe I want to make sure that the link to the chat application is working properly. So I can right-click the contact page and I can go down and choose design notes. When I do that, I can mark this as a draft, revision, needs attention, any of that.
As a matter of fact, I can see that I've already written a note that says "Please check to make sure the chat link is working properly." Well, I can date stamp a response to that and then just underneath that, I could type in, Link is checked, everything is working fine. Now there's another option that I can select here which is Show when file is open. If somebody downloaded this file from the remote server or work on my local machine, if they open this file up, they would see this design note before they could work on the file.
It's a very nice way of sort of getting somebody's attention and letting them know that something needs to be done on this page. Now I'm going to click OK and I want to address one final point about design notes. You'll notice that when I created the design note for that particular file, there was no way for me to know that there was already a design note for that. So short of opening up those files and looking at them, how else can we tell if somebody is trying to pass a note to us? Well, in Dreamweaver we can go up and modify these columns in our Files panel to display new information including design notes. To do this, I'm just going to go right back to my Site Definition dialog box by double-clicking the site name.
Now if I go to the Advanced Settings, one of the settings I have is right here, File View Columns. I'm going to click on that and I notice that for Notes, currently they're being hidden. So I'm going to go ahead and select that and choose Edit and I'm going to show those notes. Once again, I'm going to save that and I can even Enable Column Sharing. That way if I upload a file with the design notes, the design notes are going to go with that file and other designers and developers are going to be able to see those notes. I'm going to hit Save. It's going to reconnect to the remote server and now I can see that contact has a Design Nnote both locally and remotely.
And if I want to read that design note, all I have to do is double-click on it and it's going to open that note up without having to do any type of right-clicking. So that makes it really easy to scan your site and find you any notes. If I connect to my remote server and I see some files that have notes on them, I know that those files need attention and I'm going to take a closer look at them. So it's a really nice way of working collaboratively with your team members and passing information back and forth about specific files or tasks. So, Dreamweaver's site management tools give you a surprising amount of power and control over your site and your file transfer process.
For new users, many of the options available in the Site panel can seem a little intimidating. Take some time to get to know these features and their capabilities and you'll be taking control of your site management in no time.
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2006 Barolo, Villa Peironte, Marks & Spencer, £10 until Dec 31fine, beefy barolo, whose leafy fruit finishes on a pleasing, savoury note
2009 Jackson Estate Stitch Sauvignon Blanc, Waitrose, £7.99 until Jan 4Mouthwatering, vibrant, gooseberry and tropical fruit pizzazz
2008 Margaret River Semillon-Sauvignon Blanc, M&S, £7.49 until Dec 31Glorious, zesty, pea-pod and green tomato -scented festive apéritif
1998 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim Vintage Port, Tesco, £20 until January 3seductive, spicy, perfumed, blackberry and black pepper-laden
Peach, lemon and hazelnuts
The Society's Exhibition Chardonnay Tasmania 2009 (£12.95 Wine Society)Fine, understated cream and citrus
Marchand & Burch Porongurup Chardonnay 2009 (£23.25 Bibendum)Ambitious, lightly oaked and spicy from a Franco-Australian venture
cherry flavours and vivid freshness
2009 Palais des Anciens Côtes Du Roussillon Blanc. £6.99, Tescorefreshing blend with its soft apple and stonefruit flavours
2005 Principesco Brunello di Montalcino. £14.99 on offer, selected Sainsbury'saromatic quality and rich, concentrated cherry fruit
tropical-fruit salad of clementine, guava and banana in a fresh, zingy syrup
Darting Estate Scheurebe Beerenauslese, Germany 2007 (£17, 50cl, Marks & Spencer)pure-grapefruit version of those Newberry Fruit jellies
Gonzalez Byass, Matusalem Oloroso, Spain (£15.47, 37.5cl, waitrosewine.com)astonishingly rich and concentrated; explodes on the palate
Heidsieck & Co Monopole Blue Top (on offer at £17 at Asda)The crisp, fresh though it's not worth £27.99 at Sainsbury's
Ridgeview Marksman Brut (£22, Marks & Spencer; 12%)gorgeous, honeyed
Cava Torre Oria Brut (£8.99, or £6.74 if you buy six, Oddbins; 12%)amazingly rich
Jansz from Tasmania (£12.99 Oddbins; £12.95, slurp.co.uk; 12.2%)impressively champagne-like
Lindauer Brut Rosé (£9.99, Oddbins; 2 @ £7.99 Majestic)flirty – it's more appealing than their standard brut
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THREE AMIGOS WHITE 2007 McHenry Hohnen (£12.99, Oddbins, £14.95, Berry Bros)Aromatic, textured and complex.
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NIDA funded researchers report that kynurenic acid is a naturally occurring substance in the brain that can lessen the effects of THC in animal models of drug abuse and addiction. The acid acts by reducing the function of alpha-7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
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Date of Stay: June, 2014 - $21.00
This is a huge campground with a big fishing lake. However, it has seen better days. Our site was gravel and not at all level and the others we saw did not look much better. There is a general lack of maintenance. 30 amp power is the max. Some of advertised facilities are not actually available. Internet only available at office and nearby. The pools are excellent but have few chairs surrounding them. This place is good for an overnight stay along I-44 but as a whole is a little tired. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: May, 2013 - $17.00
The rate is for Passport America. Lots of trees so no satellite reception in most sites. Roads are narrow and the sites are not real level, but still usable. The staff were friendly, but left us to get to our site ourselves but the map was clear. We had 30A and water only, but the power was stable. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: May, 2013 - $17.00
I checked the reviews for this park and hoped that their maintenance issues would be solved, unfortunately, no. The same maintenance issues mentioned 2 years ago apply, huge potholes in the road, sites not level, wires hanging out of the cooler in the bathroom, holes in the fiberglass showers where other fixtures had been. They do have free Wi-Fi, available in the "lodge" only. The laundry had some very old, very nasty dryers. Will not stay here again. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: October, 2012 - $17.00
Based on other reviews we would not have stopped here, but for a night we thought we would give it a chance and boy were we surprised. First the staff was very friendly and went over board explaining what was available to us. The sites are large with lots of space between them. They have lots to do here including pools, lake, game rooms and activities for kids and adults. Our rate reflected Passport America. We will stay again for a longer visit. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: April, 2012 - $17.00
Rate reflects Passport America price. FHU pull-through site with 30 amp service. Everything about this park is old and run down. It needs a lot of work. Roads are full of big ruts and pot holes. Sites are gravel and not at all level. No Wi-Fi. No TV reception where we were. Poor cell phone reception. Lots of trees with low hanging branches. We would not stay here again. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: March, 2012 - $17.00
This was a membership park for a long time, however they now admit non-members. The park has been in existence for many years, and looks like it. The present owners are actively trying to bring it up to snuff, but I suspect it will take quite a bit of time and money on their part. The staff is very friendly and helpful, and because of that I would consider staying there again. The park has many features which we were not able to sample, as we were there in the off season and the place was, for the most part, deserted. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: July, 2011 - $17.00
I have been camping here since 2005 and have seen a big change occurring here. The park is under new management and has a new Board of Directors that seems to be committed to turning this park around. Many improvements have happened in the last 2 years. Campsites have been leveled and the roads have been repaired. This is a great family park with many weekend activities for all ages. I will continue to camp here. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: March, 2011 - $16.00
This park is located a few miles off the interstate in a beautiful wooded area. Lots of trees and getting to some of the Passport America sites are hard to get into. Not much going on so early into the season. The park needs some sprucing up a bit. The office staff were in training for the upcoming season so we will see how they do when we pass through again. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: August, 2010 - $16.00
This park is listed as a 4 star with Woodalls but this is way misleading. If I was a member in the Coast to Coast resort club and I stopped here, I would have to cancel or just plain raise hell. Pros of this park: beautiful place, pleasant people at check in and quiet with a great pool. Cons: 1: all uneven and unlevel sites, I used 3 orange blocks to get level front to rear and still didn't make it. 2: most of the drive thrus had heavy rain runoff damage (ruts) 3: the lady at check in was pleasant but she had no idea where the sites were and which direction we had to pull into them. 4: all of the resort buildings snack shack etc were closed and none had any idea where we could get the miniature golf clubs/balls or the other sport equipment. That is enough cons with several more left. The only reason I would stay at this park again is the passport price and if the owners drop that, shame on them. Seems the membership has dropped and the revenue isn't coming in. The men shower room was so ugly and there was a single fan standing on a chair to cool the place. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: May, 2010 - $10.00
We have used this park 2 - 3 times per year since the mid seventies. In the past several years we have seen it gradually deteriorate. The interior roads are very bad. The sites are in need of repair. It has many, many trees which are nice except most of them are in need of trimming. The park in general is just run down. We had made reservations through coast to coast. And was given a confirmation letter and number. Upon our arrival the two girls had no knowledge of a reservation. Assigned me to a site number that I knew that our 5th wheel would not fit on. We was given another site. The gravel road was washed out and difficult to drive on up a hill to get to the site. I had to climb up on my roof to trim two limbs so I could pull the rest of the way onto the site. The last two times we stayed here I declared that we would never return. This time I am making good on my announcement. It is a shame because it was and could be a very nice park in a very pretty setting. The trees and the lake are very nice. We will travel west of Cuba about 4 or 5 miles and stay at The Lady Bug Park. We have many very fond memories of Meramec Vally CG. but it is time to move on. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: May, 2010 - $18.00
Stayed at Passport rate. The park reminds me of a Corps park, rustic. It offers many amenities but because of the time of year they may not be ready for the summer. Saw 2 pools, teen center, adult center, pavilion, tennis courts, lodge/office. In it's day it must have been quite the place. The front desk doesn't handle one nighters very well. The park was quiet and dark. A good place for a walk. Would stay again. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: October, 2009 - $16.00
This is a "Coast to Coast" property but we stayed with a Passport America 50% discount. We stayed with a 41 ft RV plus Jeep in a pull through. It has heavily wooded, narrow sites, no TV, no satellite, bad roads, barking dogs until 11 PM. One night was enough! We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: September, 2009 - $20.00
We only spent one night here, lots of kids running around. The sites are small for larger units we did alright with the 5th wheel. We will not stay again, had a hard time getting back to the site in the dark. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: January, 2009 - $15.00
This RV place is not a normal RV park. Its privately owned and reminded me of girl scout summer camp. We didnt have any problems with anyone there when we stayed last summer. Badest part was the mosquitoes for me. My fiancee also got some weird rash on his legs when he walked the dog thru the trails (with long pants on!) inside the park. May have been poison Ivy or chigger bites. Stay on the roads and you should be ok. There's an olympic sized pool there, but they had already closed it for the season by the time we got there. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: September, 2008 - $14.00
We were in a 40' MH and there was a 18" elevation from the front to rear jacks in the two spots we were assigned. The auto-leveling system would not override the terrain conditions. The sewer would only accept a half open valve setting, and still overflowed. Low Overhanging branches are a hazard to the antennas. We left without getting our money back-I would have paid another $14.00 just to leave. This is a good park for popups and small units, not for a forty foot Motorhome if you value your windshields, paint and antennas. This is a typical Passport park which is nicely suited for families in small units. Enter at your own peril. We camped at Meramec Valley Camp Resort in a Motorhome.
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- 1999 Emmy Award – Star Trek: Voyager – Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series:
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- Ronald B. Moore, Visual Effects Supervisor
- Greg Rainoff, Visual Effects Artist
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- 2001 Emmy Award – Star Trek: Voyager – Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series:
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- Steve Fong, Visual Effects Compositor
- Ronald Moore, Visual Effects Supervisor
- Greg Rainoff, Visual Effects Animator
- Mitch Suskin, Visual Effects Supervisor
- John Teska, CGI Artist - Foundation Imaging
The company was dissolved after work on season one of Star Trek: Enterprise had been completed and the company assets were sold off in a public auction on December 17, 2002 by Brian Testo Associates, LLC.
The company's Emmy Award winning work on Babylon 5 popularized using Lightwave 3D on US TV shows for CGI visual effects and becoming an industry standard
Key Emmy Award winning animators from the company, Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz and John Teska remain major figures in the visual effects field for their work on shows such as the rebooted Battlestar Galactica and Lost.
Project history[edit]
- The Jackal (1997)
- Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998)
- Today's Life (2000)
- The Legend of Zu (2001) (Blood Sea sequence)
- They Crawl (2001)
- Project Viper (2002)
- The Extreme Team (2003)
- Chrome (2005)
Live action series[edit]
- Babylon 5 (1993 - 1996) (seasons 1-3)
- Hypernauts (1995 - 1996) (season 1)
- Star Trek: Voyager (1996 - 2001) (seasons 3-7)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1997 - 1999) (the season 5 finale, seasons 6-7)
- Dawson's Creek (2000) (single episode water effects)
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2001 - 2002) (season 1)
Animated series[edit]
- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999)
- Max Steel (2001)
- Dan Dare (2002)
Video games[edit]
- Twisted Metal: Black (2001) (CG movie and visual effects)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (DVD director's edition)
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